Hope, Political Credibility and Historicity: The Construction of Confidence and Mistrust in Vaccines and Vaccination Against Covid-19 in Argentina
Since December 2020, the Argentine State carried out a national vaccination plan to face the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite several initial difficulties, by the end of December 2021, a high percentage of the population had been vaccinated. Given that vaccines and vaccination are widely accepted in the c...
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Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/41860 |
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| Sumario: | Since December 2020, the Argentine State carried out a national vaccination plan to face the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite several initial difficulties, by the end of December 2021, a high percentage of the population had been vaccinated. Given that vaccines and vaccination are widely accepted in the country, this was not surprising at all. However, the campaign also received very harsh objections and attacks from the political and media opposition, giving rise to violent public controversies. My aim is to show that these disputes can be read as updates of a specific historicity, that is, local ways of thinking and organizing the present in relation to schemes of the past that, in turn, make certain futures imaginable and admissible. My analysis is focused on the public discourse of leaders, legislators and politicians from different parties about vaccines and the vaccination plan until mid-2021. This information was obtained through the collection and analysis of written sources from newspaper media, governmental and non-governmental agencies, and social networks and websites. Additionally, I used statistical information to provide a better understanding of the development of the pandemic and vaccination. |
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